The proposed law reignites national debate over the balance between child protection and religious freedom. By requiring ...

A proposed law in Arizona could see priests facing felony charges if they fail to break the seal of confession after learning ...

In “The Guilty Vicarage,” an essay on detective fiction, W.H. Auden argues that the most successful detective novels take ...

NCR interviews James O'Toole, whose new book, For I Have Sinned, details the growth and eventual decline of confession in the ...

The 1953 Alfred Hitchcock film “I Confess,” based on an earlier play, features a priest suspected of murder. He’s innocent, and has even heard the murderer’s confession – but cannot clear his own name ...

A new Arizona bill seeks to force priests and pastors to break their seal of confession if they learn about a case of child ...

DOVER, Del.- A proposed bill in the Delaware Legislature would require Roman Catholic priests to report confessions relating to child abuse and neglect. However, the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, ...

The spokeswoman for France’s bishops’ conference clarified Wednesday that the country’s Catholic leaders do not intend to compromise on the Church’s teaching that the confessional seal is sacrosanct. ...

HARTFORD, Conn.—After a nearly weeklong debate, Connecticut legislators passed stricter sexual abuse legislation without a controversial passage about priests reporting what they hear in the ...

This autumn, a Swiss Catholic church installed an AI Jesus in a confessional to interact with visitors. The installation was a two-month project in religion, technology and art titled "Deus in Machina ...

Fresh off of a wildly successful run at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and featuring special songs to tie into the Christmas and Advent season, this Confessional will get you really questioning ...